ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,449, issued on May 27, was assigned to Iscar Ltd. (Tefen, Israel).
"Method for cutting a thread on a rotating workpiece" was invented by Vladimir Koren (Maalot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cutting a thread on a rotating workpiece by means of a cutting tool having a cutting edge. The method includes sequentially performing a number of passes, each pass includes simultaneously moving the cutting tool and/or the workpiece relative to each other along and oscillating the cutting tool towards and away from workpiece rotational such that the cutting edge exits and enters the workpiece forming an air cut. The air cuts...